It is not only your heart which suffers attacks, or brain which has a stroke, legs too are prone to these. Leg attacks are a result of peripheral artery disease and are caused by the blockage of

Cutting across party lines, all the parliamentarian doctors have formed a Medical Parliamentary Forum to pressurise the government to take adequate steps regarding the burning health problems of the

A mechanical engineer has claimed to have discovered a path-breaking cure for nerve shattering headaches and hair loss by applying the heat transfer principles of engineering to other field of

At many US hospitals, doctors use the pen before the scalpel to avoid wrong-site surgery. From 1985 to 1995 the US Physicians Insurers Association counted 225 claims from wrong-site surgery by

The number of epilepsy patients in Nepal is estimated to be about 460,000 at present. On average 11 to 134 epilepsy patients are found in the world per 100,000 people whereas in Nepal the number is

Maharashtra Cabinet on Tuesday decided to recommend the central government to ban the production, sale, distribution and comsumption of gutkha containing tobacco by amending the Food Adulteration

In what would give a fillip to voluntary blood donation movement in the Capital, nursing homes can now collect blood by organising voluntary blood donation camps to deposit it at the nearest blood

Scottish Royal College's Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) has launched a website which provides a calender of measures to tackle diseases. This was stated by the author of SIGN and

The appalling succession of sixth AIDS-related death in a single family in the course of two years at Malayalapuzha village, off Pathanamthitta, in Kerala has become the focal point for AIDS

The Indian Medical Association is soon going to introduce a post-graduate course in HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases for practising physicians all over the country which will also be